According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than one in five U.S. households relies on some sort of septic system. Finding out a home has a well and septic system can make a ...

Q. We are interested in a foreclosed country home with a septic tank. Our agent wants us to do the research "on our own" as she knows little about septic systems. There is no seller we can ask about ...

For millions of American homeowners, flushing a toilet is an act that’s taken for granted. You simply push down on the little silver handle and walk away without giving it a second thought. But not ...

Q: We found out a couple of months ago that the leach field of our septic system has failed. The field is on our neighbor's property. It was our neighbor who turned us in to the local code enforcer. A ...